World Rainforest Movement
The experts at the service of transnational corporations have proved to have an unlimited inventive capacity to better serve those who are paying them. Among their most recent achievements is (Read More)
The vast rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo –the second largest on Earth after the Amazon– have been seen by the World Bank as a target area. In 2002, (Read More)
The political instabilities in Nigeria during Abacha’s regime in 1993/94, which was an aftermath of the annulment of June 12, 1992 presidential election won by the late business mogul -Chief (Read More)
In South Africa, more than 1.5 million hectares of managed alien, monoculture tree plantations have been established, and currently more than 130 square km of new plantations are being established (Read More)
Eucalyptus were first introduced into China in about 1890 and were originally planted as ornamentals and roadside shade trees. The primary high tide of Eucalyptus plantations mainly for timber production (Read More)
Since India gained political independence in 1947, Protected Areas and development projects like large dams, mines, industries, roads and army cantonments displaced millions of people in the country. Planning Commission (Read More)
In 2004, the Minister of Forestry, through Decree No. 101/Menhut-II/2004, issued a policy on accelerating pulpwood development to supply the pulp and paper industry. The policy received broad acceptance in (Read More)
“We want to hold accountable those companies that built or profited from the dam – the Korean company that built it or the Belgian company that owns the dam now. (Read More)
Bertolt Brecht wrote from exile: “Truly, I live in dark times./ The word ingénue is senseless. An unlined forehead / reveals insensitivity. He who laughs / has not yet heard (Read More)
In 2003, Brazil’s Aracruz Cellulose paid Klabin US$610 million to buy its Riocell pulp operations in Rio Grande do Sul. Along with a 400,000 tonnes a year pulp mill and (Read More)
The commune of Lumaco, with its 11.405 inhabitants, is located in the Ninth Region of Chile. From the standpoint of the ancient Mapuche territoriality and the present Mapuche claim to (Read More)
The Motilon Bari Indigenous Peoples have been settled for thousands of years in the basin of the Catatumbo River, in the Department of Northern Santander (Colombia). It is a forest (Read More)
On 13 May, over 400 young people of both sexes participated in an action against the plantations of the Japanese EUCAPACIFIC Company in the area of Tortuga, located in the (Read More)
To the south of the Yasuni National Park (see WRM Bulletin No. 96), an unequal battle is being fought. Spears against shotguns. The Yasuni National Park covers an area of (Read More)
This August the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will finally catch up to the rest of the pack by putting into effect its first Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP-765). Joining (Read More)
In the last decade, financial institutions and investment banks have handed out more than US$40 billion for new pulp projects in the South. Analysts expect another US$54 billion to be (Read More)
